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["Theodoros G. Karounos" <karounos@mail.ntua.gr>]

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From: Nathan Yergler <nathan@creativecommons.org>
Date: 2008/11/24
Subject: [CCi] Upcoming updates to translate.creativecommons.org
To: cci@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@creativecommons.org>


A bit more than a month ago we hinted we were working a new web-based
translation tool.  We're committed to making translation easier and
more productive for all of our affiliates.  To that end, improving the
tools is one of Asheesh Laroia's current focuses.  This message should
be considered as coming from both of us.

BRIEF SUMMARY

Things are going to look prettier on
http://translate.creativecommons.org once we flip the switch into a
newer version of the software on Wednesday morning, Nov. 26 Pacific
time.  We're making things easier to use by joining forces with
Mozilla and the Pootle developers on improving Pootle.

DETAILS

So we've joined forces with the Mozilla project on an overhaul to
Pootle.  They've decided to make improvements to Pootle to make it
suitable for their translation efforts and in true open source fashion
we're benefiting from their changes and contributing our own.  Mozilla
has already improved the user interface quite a bit, so we'd like to
share that with all of you.  There's a long series of Pootle
improvements coming down this pipe, we expect; this is just the
opening.

>From our end, we're also going to make the process more streamlined
for translators.  Here is some feedback we've gotten, and how we plan
to address it:

Issue: "It takes too long to see the translations on the web, either
on the staging site or the main site"

Response: (Done) For all admins of a language, there is now a link
labeled "Commit" you can do in Pootle.  When you do this, the latest
translations go live on staging.creativecommons.org.  (I think this is
pretty cool. Try it!)

Issue: "It's hard to understand how to use Pootle"

Response: (In progress) In the next few days, I'll be publishing a
video of basic Pootle usage that slowly shows how to be sure you are
using it effectively.  I'm happy to answer other questions about how
to use it.

Issue: "It's hard to keep up"

Response: (In progress) We'll start emailing statistics to the CCi
list showing which languages are in need of work.  The new Pootle
calculates how many words need translation rather than how many
messages, which is much more accurate.

Other changes we have or will be making:

* We've gone through and made all existing translators for the website
into admins which means you can now deputize others without our
intervention.  Documentation managing your translators will be part of
the documentation/screencasts that Asheesh works on.
* Pootle will be likely migrating from its old "jToolkit" backend to
the more modern Django.  This will make it faster and more reliable in
the long run.
* We'll run a nighly script that makes sure that if we add a new
string to translate, it shows up in Pootle within a day.
* I've [Asheesh] enriched the PO files with some extra "context"
information saying what the string is used for; for example, you will
see not only the language name "Korean" but our internal code for it,
"lang.kr". This probably won't be interesting to most contributors but
if you're trying to re-use our templates, etc for your own site it'll
help you connect the dots.

Again, this is just the first stage of the Pootle upgrade coming down
the pipe thanks to our working with Mozilla.  We were working on an
independent replacement for Pootle called "Herder," but when we
discovered all this activity by Mozilla we realized it would be most
beneficial if we joined forces with them.

We're planning to flip the switch Wednesday morning Pacific time.
There may be up to one hour of downtime, but we think the downtime
should be limited to about a period of five minutes.

Thanks for your contributions to date and all your feedback.  If you
have additional feedback, gripes, suggestions, we'd love to hear them.
 Also, please feel free to email us offlist with questions regarding
your account.

-- Nathan and Asheesh
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